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The Siberian city of Norilsk, above the Arctic Circle, was established here for the nickel and other metal deposits. Built under Stalin by Gulag prisoners—who numbered some 650,000 between 1930 and 19...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent A Moon of Nickel and IceThis meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever know...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent The Death of a LumberjackThe story of an imaginative boy who pretends he is the child of a sperm-laden Sicilian tomato upon which his mother accidentally fell.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent LeoloMontreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians. One day, as he comes to the defence of one of his boarders, Giuseppe accidentally kills Theo, his F...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent La sarrasineMatthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes th...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent A KidA woman agrees to a marriage of convenience with a refugee.
Find out more, including where to buy or rent A Paper WeddingIn occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to t...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent A Bag of MarblesA much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Seducing Doctor LewisTwo women, a friendship. Two parallel love stories. Marianne has a passionate affair with Nino while the relationship of Lea and David is falling apart. While a couple is forming, another's becoming u...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent Bye Bye LoveSometime long ago, probably a few years before moving picture photography was supposed to have been invented, a woman named Anne (Lucille Fluet) is discovered to have miraculous powers. She can magica...
Find out more, including where to buy or rent La Liberté d'une statue